Ottawa Canada Hi Reinhard and list:
Compact cassettes are the standard size cassettes for things like four-track talking books etc. Micro cassettes are like a shrunk Compact cassette and typically come in MC-60 or MC-90. Mini Cassettes are a touch longer, like maybe an eighth of an inch longer than a Micro Cassette and typically come in 30 minute play times. Some of them have a hole in the back corners (one hole in each back corner) of the cassette for write-enable bungs. These are cute little plastic plugs that inserted one way enable the tape to be recorded to and inserted upside down, protect the tape from being recorded. Compact and Micro cassettes are capstan-drive while Mini cassettes are Rim Drive. There are also several kinds of proprietary cassettes on the market for older Dictating machines. Grundig Stenorette had one like a compact cassette but with a clock-face like tape counter sticking out the back of the cassette, and Dictaphone Corporation once made Pico Cassettes which were kind of like Micro Cassettes, but were virtually indestructible! But Pico Cassettes never really caught on and they discontinued the machines that used them. Hope this helps. Brian -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 22/09/2006 ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
